Privacy policy

CounterStrikeGO has no accounts, comments or advertising, and it uses Google Analytics only if you allow it. This policy explains what data is processed when you visit the site or email us, and what we publish about professional players.

Who we are

CounterStrikeGO (counterstrikego.com) is run by Esports Digital LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company. If you have questions about this policy or your data, email legal@counterstrikego.com.

Under data protection law, we are the "controller" of the personal data described here, meaning we decide why and how it is used. Where Cloudflare, Twitch or YouTube makes those decisions itself, that company's own policy applies, as explained below.

What the site does not do

• There are no accounts, logins, sign-up or contact forms, comments, newsletters or payments.
• The site loads no advertising scripts. It loads Google Analytics only after you click Allow in the cookie banner.
• Unless you allow Google Analytics, the site itself sets no cookies.
• Fonts, images, site search and 3D models load from our own domain, not from other companies' servers.
• The site never asks for your Steam login, password or API key, and it does not store anyone's inventory.
• We do not sell personal data, and we do not use it for advertising.

When you visit the site

Hosting by Cloudflare

The site is hosted by Cloudflare. Each time your browser requests a page, Cloudflare processes technical data about the request, such as your IP address, the page requested and information about your browser. Cloudflare needs this data to deliver the page and to protect the site from malicious traffic.

Cloudflare decides for itself how it uses this traffic data, so its own privacy policy applies to it. For the logs of our site that Cloudflare shows us, it acts on our behalf. Its policy sets no fixed period for keeping this data. It says Cloudflare keeps personal information for a period "consistent with the business purposes" described in the policy, or as long as it needs to meet legal obligations.

Cloudflare is a U.S.-based company with a global network, so this data may be processed outside your country. The company says it stores information mainly in the United States and the European Economic Area. For transfers from Europe to the United States, it relies on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, the UK Extension to that framework and the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.

We do not keep our own logs of visits. Our Cloudflare dashboard shows us a sample of recent requests, including IP addresses, for about a month. We look at it only to keep the site running and secure.

Network Error Logging

Cloudflare also uses a feature called Network Error Logging. Along with the site's pages, it sends your browser an instruction to report failed connections to the site. Browsers based on Chromium, such as Chrome, Edge and Opera, keep this instruction for seven days.

If a connection to the site then fails, the browser sends a report to Cloudflare at a.nel.cloudflare.com. The report includes the page URL, the type of error, timing and other technical details of the failed request. Successful visits are not reported.

Cloudflare says, "Reports do not contain personally identifiable information (PII)." It also says it "does not log the client IP address anywhere in the Network Error Logging pipeline." Our cookie notice explains how to remove the instruction from your browser.

Google Analytics, if you allow it

On your first visit, a banner asks whether we may use Google Analytics, a Google service that counts visits and shows us which pages people read. Until you click Allow, the site loads nothing from Google Analytics and sets no analytics cookies. If you click Decline, it stays that way. Your browser saves your answer in its local storage under the name csgo-consent, and the banner asks again after 12 months.

If you click Allow, your browser loads Google Analytics from googletagmanager.com, and it sets two cookies: _ga and a second one whose name starts with _ga_. Our cookie notice lists them. For each page you open, Google Analytics receives the page address and title, the page you came from, your browser's language, your screen resolution and how long the page is in focus. It also records when you click a link to another site, scroll to the bottom of a page or download a file.

Google says that in Google Analytics 4 "IP addresses are not logged or stored." For visitors in the EU, Switzerland and the UK, it says the IP address is used only to determine location and is then discarded.

We set Google Analytics to keep user-level and event-level data for 14 months. This setting does not apply to aggregated reports, such as the number of visits to a page. Google signals is off, and our Google Analytics is not linked to any advertising account. Google processes this data on our behalf under the Google Ads Data Processing Terms, which list Google Analytics among the services they cover.

Google may process this data in the United States. For personal data from the European Economic Area, Google says it relies on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, and in certain circumstances on the UK Extension and the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework for data from the UK and Switzerland. It may also rely on Standard Contractual Clauses. Google explains its use of this data in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

You can change your answer at any time with the Cookie settings link at the bottom of every page. If you click Decline after allowing Google Analytics, the site stops using it and deletes its cookies. Google also offers a browser add-on that blocks Google Analytics on all sites.

Your theme choice

If you click Dark or Light in the header, your browser saves your choice in its local storage under the name csgo-theme. Only the word "dark" or "light" is saved, so the next page opens in the same theme. The setting stays in your browser and is never sent to us or anyone else. Our cookie notice explains how to remove it.

Search, filters and 3D models

Site search runs in your browser using index files from our own domain. Your search terms are not sent to any outside service, unless they are in the page address and you have allowed Google Analytics, which receives the address of each page. Skin filters store your choices in the page URL, so you can share the link. The 3D view in some weapon guides loads from our own domain, and only after you click it.

If you subscribe to our RSS feed or our skin market calendar, your feed reader or calendar app, such as Google Calendar, downloads the file from our domain from time to time. Like any request to the site, this passes through Cloudflare.

Videos and streams from Twitch and YouTube

Event pages, the homepage and some news stories offer Twitch streams and clips. Skin and weapon pages, some guides, history articles and the homepage offer YouTube videos. Until you click play, your browser makes no request to Twitch or YouTube; the picture shown before that is a copy of the video's thumbnail kept on our site.

When you click, the player loads from twitch.tv or youtube.com. From then on, Twitch or YouTube can collect data and set cookies under its own rules: the Twitch Privacy Notice and Cookie Notice, and the Google Privacy Policy, which covers YouTube. We use YouTube's standard player, not its privacy-enhanced mode, because in that mode the player does not recognize that you are signed in to YouTube and asks you to sign in.

Links to other sites

Links to other sites, such as Skinport, Valve or tournament organizers, are plain links. Once you open another site, its own privacy policy applies. The "Inspect in game" button is a steam:// link. It asks the Steam app on your computer to open the item in CS2 and sends nothing to us.

When you email us

If you email us, we receive your email address, your message and your name, if you include it. We use them to reply to you and to keep a record of the conversation.

Email sent to our addresses passes through Cloudflare Email Routing, which forwards it to our inbox at Gmail, a Google service. Google handles these messages under its privacy policy. Cloudflare keeps a record of each routed message, such as the sender, recipient and subject, for 31 days.

We keep emails for up to two years after the conversation ends and then delete them, unless we need them to deal with a legal claim.

People we write about

This section is for the professional Counter-Strike players we write about. It explains what we publish about them, where it comes from and why.

• What we publish: a player's nickname, real name, country, age, team and teammates. We also publish the team's matches and results, the player's moves between teams and news that names the player. Some player pages also show a photo.
• Where it comes from: Rosters come from Valve's Regional Standings. Real names, countries, dates of birth, matches and results come from PandaScore, an esports data provider. We record moves between teams ourselves from those rosters, starting in October 2026. Photos come from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses and are credited to their authors.
• Age: We calculate a player's age from the date of birth in PandaScore's data. We show no age for players under 18.
• Why: to report on professional Counter-Strike.
• Legal basis: legitimate interests, namely reporting on professional esports, using information that Valve and PandaScore already publish about players' careers. We weigh this interest against the players' interests and rights, and we give extra weight to players under 18. We handle requests about players under 18 first.
• How long: A player page stays as a record of professional Counter-Strike. When a player is no longer on the roster of any team we cover, the page stays, but we ask search engines not to index it.
• Your rights as a player: You can object to this use, or ask us to correct or delete your data, by emailing legal@counterstrikego.com. You can also complain to a data protection authority.

Legal bases

Where the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or the UK GDPR applies, we rely on these legal bases:

"Legitimate interests" means we may use data for a reasonable purpose of our own, as long as your rights and interests do not override our interest. You can object to this use at any time by emailing us.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, data protection laws such as the GDPR and the UK GDPR give you the right to:

• Ask what personal data we hold about you and get a copy.
• Have inaccurate data corrected.
• Have your data deleted.
• Restrict how we use your data, or object to its use.

To exercise these rights, email legal@counterstrikego.com. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority, for example in the country where you live or work.

Children

The site is for a general audience. It does not ask anyone's age, and it has no accounts or forms, so it collects no data from anyone that way.

If we learn that someone under 13 has emailed us, we reply once and then delete the message.

If you are a parent or guardian and your child has emailed us, write to legal@counterstrikego.com, and we will delete the child's message.

Changes to this policy

When we change this policy, we update the date below.

Last updated: Oct. 25, 2026.